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Third clip from Big Ears '25, maybe my favorite from dozens of brilliant shows: Portishead singer Beth Gibbons in solo mode. Her Lives Outgrown album was stunning to hear, but for the encore she caused mayhem by treating us to one from the old band...
April 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Third clip from Big Ears '25, maybe my favorite from dozens of brilliant shows: Portishead singer Beth Gibbons in solo mode. Her Lives Outgrown album was stunning to hear, but for the encore she caused mayhem by treating us to one from the old band...
2nd Big Ears clip. Musicians love the festival cos they set up lots of unlikely collaborations. Here Sun Ra's Arkestra + Yo La Tengo. And yes, that's Marshall Allen at the front (age 101), who was a Buffalo Soldier in WWII, stayed in Paris to study sax & joined the Arkestra in '58. Some kinda life!
April 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
2nd Big Ears clip. Musicians love the festival cos they set up lots of unlikely collaborations. Here Sun Ra's Arkestra + Yo La Tengo. And yes, that's Marshall Allen at the front (age 101), who was a Buffalo Soldier in WWII, stayed in Paris to study sax & joined the Arkestra in '58. Some kinda life!
Finally gathered vid snippets from the Big Ears Fest in Knoxville, always my fave four days of the year. Will post over coming days. This the simply staggering Anohnie & the Johnsons: *It Must Change* from wonderful recent album My Back Was a Bridge...what a voice huh? Great London-based band.
April 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Finally gathered vid snippets from the Big Ears Fest in Knoxville, always my fave four days of the year. Will post over coming days. This the simply staggering Anohnie & the Johnsons: *It Must Change* from wonderful recent album My Back Was a Bridge...what a voice huh? Great London-based band.
Things to find joy in pt2: the fabulous Slavic Soul Party at this year's Golden Festival of Balkan Music in Queens, one of the most remarkable fests I've ever been to. David Byrne in the background (goes every year it seems.) Here's why:
March 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Things to find joy in pt2: the fabulous Slavic Soul Party at this year's Golden Festival of Balkan Music in Queens, one of the most remarkable fests I've ever been to. David Byrne in the background (goes every year it seems.) Here's why:
Things to find joy in, pt1: stayed an extra night in Nashville after appearing at the Southern Festival of Books, for bluegrass at the Station Inn. It was open night, bring your own instruments, and just impossibly fun and brilliant.
March 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Things to find joy in, pt1: stayed an extra night in Nashville after appearing at the Southern Festival of Books, for bluegrass at the Station Inn. It was open night, bring your own instruments, and just impossibly fun and brilliant.